Delaware

Del·a·ware ¹  (dl-wâr)

n. pl. Delaware or Del·a·wares

1.

a. A group of closely related Native American peoples formerly inhabiting the Delaware and Hudson river valleys and the area between, with present-day populations in Oklahoma, Kansas, Wisconsin, and Ontario. The Delaware formed a variety of political alliances in their westward migration after losing their lands to white settlement in the 17th and 18th centuries.

b. A member of a Delaware people. Also called Lenape, Lenni Lenape.

2. One or both of the Algonquian languages of the Delaware.

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[After the Delaware River.]

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Dela·ware·an adj.

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Del·a·ware ²  (dl-wâr) Abbr. DE or Del.

A state of the eastern United States on the Atlantic Ocean. It was admitted as the first of the original Thirteen Colonies in 1787. Settled by the Dutch in 1631 and by Swedes in 1638, the region passed to England in 1664. It was part of William Penn's Pennsylvania grant from 1682 until 1776. Dover is the capital and Wilmington the largest city. Population: 865,000.

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Del·a·ware ³  (dl-wâr)

n.

A variety of grape having sweet, light red fruit.

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[After Delaware².]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	Delaware - a river that rises in the Catskills in southeastern New York and flows southward along the border of Pennsylvania with New York and New Jersey to northern Delaware where it empties into Delaware Bay Delaware River DE, Diamond State, First State, Delaware - a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies Empire State, New York State, NY, New York - a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies
	2.	Delaware - a member of an Algonquian people formerly living in New Jersey and New York and parts of Delaware and Pennsylvania Algonquian, Algonquin - a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast
	3.	Delaware - one of the British colonies that formed the United States
	4.	Delaware - a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies DE, Diamond State, First State U.S.A., United States, United States of America, US, USA, America, the States, U.S. - North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776 Mid-Atlantic states - a region of the eastern United States comprising New York and New Jersey and Pennsylvania and Delaware and Maryland capital of Delaware, Dover - the capital of the state of Delaware Wilmington - the largest city in Delaware Delaware, Delaware River - a river that rises in the Catskills in southeastern New York and flows southward along the border of Pennsylvania with New York and New Jersey to northern Delaware where it empties into Delaware Bay Delaware Bay - an inlet of the North Atlantic; fed by the Delaware River
	5.	Delaware - the Algonquian language spoken by the Delaware Algonquian language, Algonquin, Algonquian - family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains